As part of her plea arrangement with federal prosecutors, a former surgical technician at Rose Hospital explained on video how she infected at least 15 patients with hepatitis C by giving them needles she had used to feed her drug addiction to the painkiller fentanyl.

Kristen Parker, who worked at Rose and later the Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs, was arrested last summer and pleaded guilty in September to a variety of charges based on stealing fentanyl.

She admitted stealing syringes from operating rooms that she would inject herself with then refill the syringes with sterile saline solution and put them back in the operating rooms. But a hepatitis C infection she contracted from using heroin caused her to spread the infectious disease to at least 15 surgical patients at Rose. No patients from Audubon have yet tested positive.

Parker, who faces 20 years in prison, agreed as part of a deal with prosecutors to truthfully describe her crimes for the victims and hospitals.

The hour-long digital recording, released Friday, shows a crying, remorseful Parker, now 26, recounting her life of drug addiction, starting in high school with marijuana, cocaine and experimental amounts of LSD and Ecstasy.

Much of her story of addiction has previously been disclosed — she first got hooked after jaw surgery in 2000. But the video shows her explaining how she lied to every future employer, starting in Mount Kisco, N.Y., so she could get jobs as a surgical tech, with easy access to drugs.

While in New York, she first learned how to steal syringes of fentanyl and replace them with syringes she filled with sterile saline solution, she said. In March, 2008, she was fired. Soon, she was using heroin and sharing syringes with others.

Realizing her life was spinning out of control, she decided to move to Colorado to be with her parents in Elizabeth and to quit drugs.

In Colorado in the fall of 2008, after suffering through heroin withdrawal, she again began looking for work as a surgical tech.

She passed a urine analysis test and started at Rose in late October 2008. But a blood test during orientation showed she had contracted hepatitis C. Parker said she, in essence, ignored the result.

“I blocked it out,” she said. “I was in denial.”

It wasn’t a week before she started stealing syringes from operating rooms again, she said. “My cravings came back immediately,” she said.

In March 2009, she was talking with a nurse in the hallway when an orderly tried to squeeze a mobile bed past them. Parker had a needle in her breast pocket and the needle poked the nurse. She was investigated but not fired.

Another sticking incident a short while later caused the hospital to test her urine for fentanyl, a specific test, which she failed. She resigned from Rose, but soon found work at Audubon in April 2009.

She immediately began stealing fentanyl again. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment soon contacted her about a hepatitis C outbreak at Rose.

“Ultimately, my life went to hell when drugs took center stage,” she said, tearfully. “I never thought in a million years so many people would have to pay for what I had done to them.”

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